What do the parties in Saarland say on housing?

The AfD wants to create more subsidized housing and make it easier to buy a home. To do so, it wants more building land developed, permitting radically simplified, and municipal and cooperative housing companies strengthened. The platform considers rent brakes and rent caps ineffective.

The AfD wants more low-cost homes. It wants more land for building. Building permits should be simpler. Cities and housing co-ops should build more homes. Buying your own home should also get easier.

The CDU wants to meet land needs for housing, business, and infrastructure primarily within existing built-up areas, but still sees moderate designation of new land as necessary. Municipalities are to get clear guidelines in the state development plan and access to special loans.

The CDU wants to use free land inside towns first. If that is not enough, new land at the edge of towns should be possible. This should harm nature as little as possible. Towns should be able to get special loans for this.

The CDU wants to revise the state building code and digitalize and simplify building procedures. Construction processes are to be managed with digital building models (BIM), and innovative building methods are to be supported.

The CDU wants to rewrite the building rules in the Saarland. Applications should become digital and simpler. Building projects should be planned with digital models. The CDU wants to support new building methods like 3D printing.

The CDU wants to align the state development plan with sustainability, climate and environmental protection, social and economic concerns, and the needs of municipalities. New building areas should be ecological where possible, and the plan is to be passed by the state parliament as a law.

A plan sets out how the state uses its land. The CDU wants to change this plan. It should consider the environment, climate, economy, and towns. Ecological model villages are to be built. The state parliament should pass the plan as a law.

The CDU wants owning a home to stay affordable, especially for young people and families. It wants to expand funding programs for buying and renovating, achieve exemption thresholds in the real estate transfer tax, and allow new building areas where demand is high.

The CDU wants young families to be able to afford their own house. There should be more support for this. Part of the purchase price should be tax-free. Where many people want to build, there should be new building areas.

The CDU wants to create affordable housing for all income groups, including people with middle incomes. The state-owned housing company WOGE is to build more, state land is to be made available, and public land is to be awarded by concept rather than price.

The CDU wants more low-cost apartments. People with middle incomes should benefit too. The state's housing company should build more. The state will check which of its own plots can be used for housing.

The CDU wants to make town centers in Saarland more attractive and keep small and mid-sized retailers competitive. A strengthened funding guide in the state building ministry is meant to help make better use of EU and federal funding.

The CDU wants to make town centers in Saarland nicer. Small shops should be able to stay there. The building ministry has a funding guide. This is an adviser for public grants. This adviser should get more tasks.

The CDU wants to strengthen sustainable building in the state administration and reward it with higher grants in funding programs. The state is also to emphasize design and quality in its own building projects and give more support to building culture.

The CDU wants building in Saarland to be more eco-friendly. Those who build this way and get it certified should receive more grant money. The state should care about good design in its own buildings. There should be more design contests for this. The Stiftung Baukultur Saar foundation should get more money.

The CDU wants to work with the city of Saarbrücken on a plan for housing construction and renovation. The aim is housing that meets demand, is sustainable and remains affordable for everyone.

Living in Saarbrücken has become expensive. The CDU wants to make a plan with the city. The plan should cover building and renovating homes. In the end, everyone should be able to afford a home.

The CDU wants many more barrier-free and disability-friendly homes and wants to write this goal into law. Support and care services for people with disabilities and people needing care are to become more flexible and personal.

There should be many more homes without barriers. This also applies to older people. The CDU wants to put this into law. Help and care should fit each person better.

The SPD wants Saarland to have 5,000 social housing units again by 2027 and more homes for people on low and middle incomes. It plans a state housing promotion law, a redesigned subsidy scheme and an alliance for affordable housing.

Saarland has only a few social housing units left. The SPD wants 5,000 of them again by 2027. A new law is planned for this. The SPD also wants to fight empty houses and apartments.